an·ti·cli·maxˌantēˈklīˌmaks,ˌantī-/nounnoun: anticlimax; plural noun: anticlimaxes; noun: anti-climax; plural noun: anti-climaxes1.a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events, usually involving a large pipe.

docmattic:I'm curious as to what they will do... can the pipe be removed, or will they reroute Bertha?

You can't reroute a giant borer like that. They'll have to send workers into the high pressure area around the cutter head to repair the damaged cutters and maybe remove the pipe.

From what I understand it's like working in a deep sea pressure environment. Bertha is under the water table and groundwater pressure is immense, which is why they had to drill a bunch of wells and pump water out to reduce the pressure.

poorjon:czetie: Bloggers/columnists that were speculating ancient artifact/crashed alien ship ("nothing human-made could be so tough!")/secret bunker will learn from this episode... absolutely nothing.

I'm not sure where they get off making that claim, because it was a steel pipe and according to the same type of people steel is so tough that it can't even be melted by fire.

/9/11 was an inside job! Well, inside the ground. Under Seattle. Where it was a steel pipe. Grumble grumble sheeple grumble...

Nicely played.

Perhaps the so-called pipe is actually where they buried the indestructible debris from the Twin Towers to conceal the evidence as far from New York as possible?

Amusingly, it does seem to be a hallmark of conspiracy nuts that they are able to hold mutually contradictory positions at one time. I used to know one who believed that (a) Phil the Greek had Diana killed and (b) she isn't really dead, she faked it to escape from public scrutiny.

This doesn't address anything. Has anyone seen a picture of the supposed pipe? Has anyone heard from anyone NOT involved with the project that it was a pipe? It should not have taken them this long to determine that it was a pipe that is marked on the utility survey of the dig route. This smells of cover-up.

Cyclometh:docmattic: I'm curious as to what they will do... can the pipe be removed, or will they reroute Bertha?

You can't reroute a giant borer like that. They'll have to send workers into the high pressure area around the cutter head to repair the damaged cutters and maybe remove the pipe.

From what I understand it's like working in a deep sea pressure environment. Bertha is under the water table and groundwater pressure is immense, which is why they had to drill a bunch of wells and pump water out to reduce the pressure.

According to the article, what they're drilling through is industrial filler. It was above ground until pretty recently. They should be well above the water table.

czetie:Perhaps the so-called pipe is actually where they buried the indestructible debris from the Twin Towers to conceal the evidence as far from New York as possible?

Nah. If anything it was where they were storing those reflective stripes they put on stop signs to tell the UN where to go when they invade to take our guns. The next step in the plan is for the UN to pawn the seized guns to buy themselves a GPS.

/Which they will use to guide the airplanes which disperse the genetically modified BPA-containing gluten which is either giving our children a case of teh ghey or irritated bowels depending on if you fear BPA or gluten more.

I'm still trying to figure out who was disappointed after expecting some sort of "climax" because a piece of drilling machinery was blocked... who built this up, in their minds, to the point where, after being told it was just an 8" well pipe, went "...are kidding? That's it? I waited breathlessly for the news and received... this? Damn, man, damn."

generallyso:Interceptor1: Wait until they hit the toxic waste in rusting 55 gallon drums.

Nah that's on the shore of the Columbia River, one of the largest river systems on the continent. And it's been actively leaking for a long time.

That shiat is everywhere. There are a bunch of drums just off the Cedar River (Seattle watershed, booyah!) leftover from the 60s and 70s. The "cleanup plan" is for the companies that put it there to come in and bury them good.

Warthog:This doesn't address anything. Has anyone seen a picture of the supposed pipe? Has anyone heard from anyone NOT involved with the project that it was a pipe? It should not have taken them this long to determine that it was a pipe that is marked on the utility survey of the dig route. This smells of cover-up.

OH, there are layers of subterfuge here, my friend. Yes, it's a steel pipe, but they're hiding in plain sight. What they don't want you to know is how the steel pipe got there.

It was part of the plumbing system for the secret underground facility where they kept a captured alien ship and its very-much-alive occupants until they were moved to Dugway, Utah in the newly refurbished "Area 51"-style facility there. When they shut down the old site, they must have missed this pipe. Watch for certain contractors in the area to quietly disappear over the next few weeks.

This project was secretly run by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, so expect Darrell Issa to be coming out will new Benghazi charges soon. That was all part of the plan from the very beginning to divert attention away from what he's actually up to.